November 30, 2009

Oregonian headline: Water's fine, but tempers are boiling

Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool....One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there...he said to him,"Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up.... Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." At once the man was made well....

For this reason (it was the sabbath) the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him....

John 5.1-19